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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1805/S00229/stepping-up-to-help-survivors-of-sexual-abuse.htm
Thursday, 17 May 2018, 2:17 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
Minister for ACC
Jan Logie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice on Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues
17 May 2018
Stepping up to help survivors of sexual abuse
Survivors of sexual abuse will receive much-needed support with increased funding for sexual abuse assessment

Each year 1.3bn tonnes of food is wasted worldwide. Read more: https://t.co/0KoTMkKg5y pic.twitter.com/STN0tpl2oR
— World Economic Forum (@wef) May 14, 2018
France has been very progressive in terms of eliminating product waste. Two years ago, they were the first country to pass a law that prevented grocery stores and supermarkets from throwing

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99% of the world’s electric buses are in China. Learn more: https://t.co/qvWBEtoMae pic.twitter.com/Uc2njAxCgN
— World Economic Forum (@wef) April 26, 2018
Our work with the World Economic Forum’s Future of Mobility and Electricity initiative identifies three primary benefits of the electrification of urban mobility.
First, the electrification of transport supports national and local

Over 2000 years of economic #history, in one chart https://t.co/SfBdI2CX78 #economics pic.twitter.com/LCRNDlB9S6
— World Economic Forum (@wef) April 1, 2018
http://www.ilo.org/beijing/areas-of-work/child-labour/lang--en/index.htm
Child labour is a fundamental principle and rights at work and universally recognized as a threat to sustainable social and economic development. Over 95 per cent of ILO’s 187 member States have

On Monday, Raniere’s secret world came crashing down when authorities tracked him down in Mexico after a months-long manhunt and arrested him for sex trafficking and forced labor.
He was arraigned in Texas on Tuesday and will now be brought to Brooklyn to face justice after what prosecutors say has been

And now Norwegians are getting their candy from Sweden. Read more: https://t.co/B0RZfKFxWM pic.twitter.com/4GAHCg8VUF
— World Economic Forum (@wef) March 13, 2018
https://sputniknews.com/business/201711301059573097-norway-sweden-sugar-tax/
The upcoming sharp rise in Norway's sugar tax has left both the confectionery industry and retailers dumbfounded by the prospect of job cuts and vanishing revenues. In neighboring Sweden, however, traders

Making NZ more accessible to disabled people could make average Kiwi $500 a year better off, via @nzherald https://t.co/BwOtfXhXv1
— NZ Human Rights Commission (@NZHumanRights) March 4, 2018
Making New Zealand more accessible to people with disabilities could boost average Kiwi incomes by about $500 a year, a new group says.
The Access

These are world's most democratic countries, according to the Economist https://t.co/OvLyf01VE4 #democracy pic.twitter.com/g3K0GaOmT4— World Economic Forum (@wef) February 21, 2018
The US’s declining status is primarily due to a significant fall in people’s trust in the functioning of public institutions, a trend that was well established before the election of President

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11992552
Northland and Auckland's sodden conditions have shifted to the southwest overnight, with Tauranga drenched in 59mm of rain in the past 12 hours.
Marlborough, which had been pelted by 198.5mm of rain in the past 24 hours in its Western Ranges, is beginning to come through the worst of it.
In Nelson,

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42906980
Andy Connolly, from Survivors UK, said victims were beginning to feel they would be believed but there was still a "massive wall of silence".
A 2015 survey estimated about 96% of offences against males go unreported.
Mr Connolly, chief executive of male rape and sexual abuse charity Survivors UK, said: "We do